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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0036",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0527",
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  "CWC-0649"
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 "display_title": "Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Dima Hasao",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Maibang",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Assam Police (Dima Hasao); Maibang PS",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.",
 "case_number": "WP(C) No. 652 of 2018",
 "citation": "2026:GAU-AS:12436",
 "judges": [
  "Kalyan Rai Surana",
  "N. Unni Krishnan Nair"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-08-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2018-01-25",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "category": "Protest policing",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": true,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang woman"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 5,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/29/2026gau-as12436-verdictum-1783356.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-police-firing-maibang-protest-violated-victims-fundamental-rights-court-award-12-lakh-compensation-549680",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/10/displayphp-699497.pdf"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 25 January 2018, an anti-Greater Nagalim protest at Maibang Railway Station turned violent with railway property damaged and stones pelted, and police firing from the platform killed a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident and seriously injured a Maibang woman, a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident The Court declined to hold the firing unprovoked but found the above-waist bullet injuries established excessive force violating the victims' fundamental rights, holding sovereign immunity no defence to such violations. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 each to the families of the two deceased and Rs 2,00,000 each to the three injured (Rs 12,00,000 total) within three months, borne by the State. Subcategory corrected from fake encounter to disproportionate force: this was excessive crowd-control firing, not a staged encounter. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 25 January 2018, an anti-Greater Nagalim protest at Maibang Railway Station turned violent with railway property damaged and stones pelted, and police firing from the platform killed a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident and seriously injured a Maibang woman, a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident The Court declined to hold the firing unprovoked but found the above-waist bullet injuries established excessive force violating the victims' fundamental rights, holding sovereign immunity no defence to such violations. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 each to the families of the two deceased and Rs 2,00,000 each to the three injured (Rs 12,00,000 total) within three months, borne by the State. Subcategory corrected from fake encounter to disproportionate force: this was excessive crowd-control firing, not a staged encounter.",
 "court_quote": "The nature of injuries, projected to have been suffered by the victims, would go to reveal that either on account of the lack of understanding of the situation and/or being so distracted by the stone pelting incident occasioning in the matter, the firing incident had also resulted in the victims suffering bullet injuries, above their waist also. Accordingly, in view of the injuries sustained by the petitioners, a case of violation of their fundamental rights is found to have been made out.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Above-waist bullet injuries showed excessive force on Maibang protesters; Rs 12L total.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Protest policing",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-26",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gauhati High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026:GAU-AS:12436",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-024",
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